Thank you, Andy Carroll. The sinews in the lad's neck may go a long way to keeping Newcastle United in the Premier League after his headed equaliser in yesterday's 1-1 draw with Stoke at that fortress of Total Football, the Britannia Stadium. His headers may be as important to us as Carlos Tevez's were for Man United last season. The paucity of the Premier League is exposed by the malaise of the majority of clubs in the bottom half of the table and ought to be further exemplified by Aston Villa and Everton's showdown at 1330 today (which I am going to the pub to watch, hence the short-term nature of today's blog).
As ever, the clue is in the title. There are some long strides to be taken to keep this club in the league and it all starts again next sunday at White Hart Lane. We've done well against Spurs for a long time now (barring the aberration in this season's League Cup, though when you look at the team we put out...) and that run can continue next week if the players add a bit of skill to the graft that has begun to creep in. Nothing is achieved yet, but all is not lost.
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